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Handoff practices in undergraduate medical education.

March 12, 2014

Liston BW, Tartaglia KM, Evans D, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2014;29(5):765-9.

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This survey of internal medicine clerkship directors revealed that a minority of medical schools provide structured handoff curricula to students, even though 93% reported that medical students routinely perform handoff activities in their final year. Standardized handoff training and assessment remain under-utilized in undergraduate medical education.

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